Posted on 01/17/2011 7:22:19 PM PST by tobyhill
The week before Rep. Charles Bass lost his seat in 2006, the leader of the House GOP's moderate wing complained that it was simply "a terrible year to be running for reelection."
"I am the same candidate I was two years ago, four years ago, six years ago," Bass told a group of business leaders in New Hampshire. "I know my constituents, and they know me."
Those constituents still knew Bass last November, when they voted to give him back his former seat, part of a nationwide wave that saw Republicans recapture old districts while also adding new territory to the red column.
For all the ink spilled on the success of the conservative-leaning tea parties and their chosen candidates, the winners last Election Day included a host of centrist GOP lawmakers like Bass, the former president of the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership whose grandfather helped start the progressive Republican movement a century ago.
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The Washington Post wishes.
Charley Tuna is my congresscritter. He’s awful squishy. Better by far than the uber lib oponent he had in the general but we sure could have done much better than to send him back to Worshinton.
We reelected my conservative former congressman (out in 08). The other GOP candidate’s biggest mistake was in skipping the right to life banquet to go fundraising with the main street republicans.
They (left) is going at this from all angles are they not. Anything to disparage.
THIS is why we all need to keep our Representative’s office phone on speed dial.
Houston, we have a problem.
My Congressman - Tom Price - began to waffle at the beginning of Bush’s second term. But since Obama took office, he has been a staunch conservative.
He now has national Tea Party attention.
The good news, he’s pro-gun.
He won his seat against Dick Swett, who voted for the original Assault Weapon Ban.
Bad news is that he’s pro-abortion and pro-queer.
Anti-gunners can’t win in NH yet. The DemonRATS need to smuggle-in some more voters from Massachusetts and Connecticut.
They’ve already got the leftist college kids voting in their college towns as well as in their home towns. There was one boast I heard about that a student in Keene and his friends not only voted in their home towns as well as in Keene, but in several precincts in Keene.
Nice, huh?
Charlie Bass is Mike Castle lite.
I was so disappointed that he was re elected!
He is a GB believer, Cap and Trade.
The ULTIMATE RINO!!
“skipping the right to life banquet to go fundraising with the main street republicans”
Don’t you think, sometimes, that the RINO’s are just smart enough to have organized another event for the excuse to not attend, let’s say, the right to life banquet? I’m just saying....ya know?
And this is also an argument against third parties, fourth parties, etc.
It doesn't matter how many parties you create, the power junkies will immediately set themselves to infiltrate, undermine, and corrupt them, just as they are doing to the Tea Party.
It's what they do.
Better.
“The Washington Post wishes.”
I agree. You ALWAYS see these stories after Republicans take power (although never when Dems win). Anyway, this country has no clue just how conservative this new Congress will be. Those ‘centrists’ will be about as centrist as Pelosi is centrist.
Do they really want us to go to a third party? Really?
Charley, ol' buddy, ol' pal, might that be because the leadership found that they couldn't count on Northeastern Republicans -- that they kept leaving the reservation on key votes?
If you're going to keep up that kind of behavior, lip service is all you deserve.
Yes, they do. Because they’re convinced they can win with independents, RINOs and dems sick of Obama. It will be a ‘kinder, gentler GOP nominee’. All pushed by the MSM. Watch.
The RINOs were dead... long live the RINOs!
RINOs aren’t the brightest bulbs in the building, or they wouldn’t be RINOs, but some of them are smart enough to see their careers will depend on their learning to be conservative. For the ones who don’t, there is always 2012.
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